LG Display, Novaled, BASF, Audi, Acuity Brands Lighting, Konica Minolta, DuPont Displays, Panasonic, Visionox, BOE, Philips Lighting and many more of the industry’s most influential players in OLED lighting and displays will be presenting new kind of products and informations at the OLEDs World Summit 2014. The OLEDworldsummit starts at 16th and ends at 18th of Septemper outside of San Francisco The Early Bird price for this conference expires Friday, August 15th and news.OLED-Display.net readers can save an additional $100 off of the conference fee by using code OLEDDISPVIP when registering at www.oledsworldsummit.com. Dr. Mike Hack, GM OLED Lighting & Custom DIsplays, Vice President Universal Display says that “Mobile phones with gorgeous OLED displays are everywhere. OLED TVs are still somewhat in their infancy, but the prospects are looking very good for their becoming the next new TV technology. More manufacturers are entering the marketplace, and the range of applications for OLED displays is growing, with wearable being the next big thing. OLED lighting is also gaining traction, with prices being reduced and exciting new products being launched. And of course 2013 was a very significant year as we saw the launch of the first OLED products built on plastic, as opposed to the conventional glass substrates.” Flexible plastic AMOLED Panels will lead to very new, exciting and differentiated products, which could not be made from exciting technologies. This will apply both to displays and lighting, and we are just at the beginning of this new revolution.” OLEDs 2014 will kick off with two pre-conference short courses covering lighting manufacturing and test standards for the SSL market and the commercialization of graphene, followed by an afternoon focusing on broader topics in the OLED industry; a full day of business and technical focus on OLED displays/materials and a full day of OLED lighting topics. The OLEDs World Summit is the longest-running, preeminent business development and technical event dedicated exclusively to the OLEDs industry – connecting researchers with customers and manufacturers in both the lighting and display sectors

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The Korea Economic Daily reports that Apple has signed a deal with LG Display to secure flexible OLED capacity. Apple will pay $2.7 billion to LG Display in order to secure 45,000 monthly substrates in LGD’s upcoming 6-Gen production facility, starting in 2019. The newspaper says that the two firms agreed to keep this deal confidential as Apple also partnered with Samsung Display for the supply of OLED capacity. Apple was always assumed to want a second OLED supplier, and earlier this week LGD confirmed it is seeking financial help from strategic partners as it embarks on an aggressive OLED expansion plan . Read more about Reports say Apple to invest $2.7 billion to secure LGD's flexible OLED capacity in 2019

A few days ago LG Display disclosed its financial results for Q2 2017 and announced a large OLED investment plan to increase capacity for both OLED TVs and small-sized flexible OLEDs . During its investor conference call, LG Display disclosed that it plans to finance some of the capacity increase through strategic partnerships such as customer commitments. In the past months we heard reports that both Apple and Google are in talks with LGD regarding an investment to secure OLED capacity. It seems likely that LGD now verified these reports – but the investments are probably not finalized yet. Read more about LGD confirms it is in talks with strategic partners to fund its aggressive OLED expansion plans

IHS estimates that flexible OLED production capacity is set to increase from 1.5 million square meters to 20.1 million square meters between 2016 and 2020. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 91%! IHS says that almost all new small-sized displays OLED capacity added in the future will be used to produce flexible OLEDs, which will grow the market share of flexible OLEDs for mobile applications from 28% today to 80% by 2020. In the years between 2016 to 2020, OLED producers in China, Korea and Japan will build the equivalent of 46 new flexible AMOLED fabs (each with 30,000 monthly substrates). Read more about IHS: flexible OLED capacity to almost double each year until 2020, leading to potential oversupply

LG Display announced its results for Q2 107 – revenues increased 13% from 2016 to KRW6.63 trillion (around $6 billion USD) and net income reached KRW737 billion ($660 million USD). TV panels accounted for 46% of LGD’s revenues, mobile devices 22% and desktop monitors and tablets and notebook displays accounted for the rest. In addition to the earning results, LGD detailed its investment path for OLEDs, as was decided in a recent board meeting. First of all, LGD decided to build a 10.5-Gen (2940×3370 mm) OLED line in its upcoming P10 fab in Paju. LGD will make an up-front investment of KRW2.8 trillion ($2.5 billion USD). The whole fab will require more investments but LGD says it is taking a prudent approach – it will only begin mass production of OLED TVs after stabilizing the technology for these extra large size substrates. Read more about LGD announces $7 billion in new OLED investments: a 10.5-gen and 6-Gen lines in Paju and a 8.5-Gen line in Guangzhou

BMW has been developing OLED automotive lighting for many years, and in 2015 BMW has announced now that they are starting to produce the M4 GTS, with its OSRAM-made OLED taillights in very limited quantities . BMW is yet to release a serial car with OLED lighting. The company’s latest concept car, the Concept 8 Series, does use OLED taillights as can be seen in the photo above, though. The new car has lot’s of new design ideas – and BMW aims to include about 80% of these when the car enters the production stage. Read more about BMW's latest concept car uses OLED taillights

UBI Research estimates that the AR and VR market will grow to 96.4 million units and $58.7 billion in device sales by 2021. In 2017, 17 million units will ship generating $3.9 billion in revenues. From 2017 to 2021 the market will grow with a CARG of 54%. According to UBI, the VR and AR market was split almost 50% between OLED and other technology displays, with 2.6 million OLEDs shipped in 2017. Most next generation VR headsets will use OLED displays, however, and by 2021 OLEDs will occupy 80% of the market. Read more about UBI sees fast growth ahead for VR and AR OLED displays

According to the Korea Herald, Samsung decided to “play it safe” with its next year’s flagship phone and it will adopt the same basic design as in its current Galaxy S8 . The 2018 Galaxy S9 will use a 5.8″ Infinity curved Super AMOLED display (and the S9+ will use a 6.2″ display as used in the S8+). It is likely that even if this report is true, Samsung Display will use an enhanced display. Even though the display used in the GS8 was “the best mobile display ever” according to DisplayMate – there is still room for improvement, for example higher resolution (good for VR), better efficiency or a larger color gamut. Read more about Samsung's 2018 Galaxy S9 will use the same display size as the S8

In December 2016 Lenovo demonstrated two foldable device prototypes . One of these devices is the CPlus, a smartphone that can be turned into a smartwatch. A few days ago Lenovo demonstrated the CPlus again, saying that such devices could be on the market within 2-3 years. The CPlus device demonstrated now is similar to the the original one shown in 2016 – but the display size has been slightly increased (to 4.35″ from 4.26″). CPlus runs on a customized Android version, includes an embedded SIM card and has a camera that can be motion triggered so it can be used in the wearable mode. Read more about Lenovo says its foldable wrist device could ship within 2-3 years

Researchers from Korea’s National University developed a new process based on high-pressure gas sprays that can be used to rapidly transfer OLED layers very quickly – which could reduce the manufacturing time of OLED panels by 90%. The new process uses a new air jet technology that sprays desquamating gas such as nitrogen, argon and air at high pressures. The gas is sprayed at a speed of 300 m/s between the OLED and a substrate – which reduces the binding power of the OLED from the substrate, and increases the binding energy of the organic layers being transferred. This can be used to quickly transfer thin films without damage them. Read more about Korean researchers develop a new way to quickly transfer thin OLED films during the manufacturing process